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BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday said it has never interfered in U.S. elections and has no interest in doing so, urging Washington to stop making what it described as “groundless accusations” after President Donald Trump accused Beijing of meddling in the 2020 election. In an address to the nation Thursday, Trump again raised doubts about the U.S. elections results in 2020 and accused China of interfering in them.

PONTIAC, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) — A Michigan woman accused of abandoning her three children in an apartment without running water has pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree child abuse. The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday that 35-year-old Kelli Bryant made the plea agreement. Under this agreement, Bryant will serve at least six years in prison.

ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4/Gray News) - A man was charged Thursday after police in Missouri said he left a baby in the middle of a street and fled from law enforcement. St. Louis City prosecutors charged 36-year-old Christopher Pearson with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest by fleeing. Pearson is being held at the St. Louis City Justice Center without bond.

(AP) - The remains of several geese were found on a New York City sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River last year and killed 6 people, investigators said Thursday, strong suggestions that multiple bird strikes contributed to the tragedy. Reports from the National Transportation Safety Board were not final and do not identify a definitive cause of the crash. But they describe evidence that supports bird strikes before the helicopter plummeted into the river on April 10, 2025.

The report describes evidence that suggests the helicopter struck birds before it plummeted. (OBTAINED BY CNN, WCBS, NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY, CNN, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

PEWAUKEE, Wis. (WISN) – A violent stomach illness sent a woman to the emergency room during one of the worst times imaginable: her honeymoon. Doctors said she contracted the parasite that is currently making so many people across the country sick. “It was just like incessant diarrhea, so just like watery and constant,” Gretchen Pleuss said. For Pleuss, formerly of Milwaukee, the newlywed’s honeymoon camping trip to Yellowstone National Park was filled with frequent trips to the bathroom.

A newlywed’s honeymoon was derailed by a trip to the emergency room after she caught a surging stomach illness. (WISN, GRETCHEN PLEUSS, CDC, CNN)

RUSKIN, Fla. (WWSB/Gray News) - Two Florida deputies were shot and flown to a hospital after a suspect ambushed them when they arrived to take him into custody Thursday. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Chris Machowski, was also transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said. A third deputy returned fire and struck Machowski multiple times. “Two of our deputies shot, please pray for them!” Chronister wrote on social media.

GRAPHIC: Two Florida were shot by a man who ambushed them after a hostage situation. (@HCSOSHERIFF)

Two Florida were shot by a man who ambushed them after a hostage situation. (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)